>>13440578Firstly, literally no one live by pure empiricism. You delegate a substantial amount of information management to other people and you trust this process, however flawed it is, and it is incredibly flawed and prone to confirmation and other selective biases.
Secondly, this idea that "scientists don't use spirituality because it's unverified" is pure nonsense. The Vatican literally contracts scientists anonymously to verify stuff such as Eucharistic miracles and other relics or miraculous recoveries of people who were afflicted with terminal illnesses. Atheist scientists study and verify whether or not these things were possible with our current scientific explanations, and if they aren't, and they are EXPRESSLY PREDICTED by the Christian cosmological understanding of reality and conform to a number of other criteria, then they're subsequently declared a miracle. Pic related is a good example. It will not convert you, but at the very least it's something that Christians can explain that scientists cannot.
